From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <20031017201737.GT834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:33:32 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7406b960-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Christopher Nielsen wrote: > How else do drivers get written? :) The hardware vendors write them (or contract to have them written) for the OSes that are dominant in the marketplace. It might not be a bad idea to study the WDM to see if its drivers can be interfaced to some generic Plan 9 device driver; while crufty at least it would help solve the problem of not getting enough information from hardware vendors to write Plan 9 drivers. Or if Linux has a better driver interface for this purpose, use that. At least Linux has *some* vendor support.